The concept descends from James Shelby Downard's 'King-Kill/33', a pamphlet (first circulated 1978; published by Michael A. Hoffman II in 1987) reading the Kennedy assassination as a Masonic ritual killing. Hoffman named and systematized the doctrine in Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare (1995): the 'cryptocracy' must disclose its acts in coded form, and the public's failure to react transforms victims into consenting participants.
The practice is a reading protocol: scan news, logos, and entertainment for 'the reveal', then interpret any pattern as deliberate disclosure. It is structurally identical to apophenia documented in psychology, pattern perception without a stopping rule, which is why the genre absorbs every refutation as further revelation.
The doctrine's psychological insight, detached from the cryptocracy: institutions do disclose, in reports nobody reads, and publics do shrug. Revelation-of-the-method converts that banal failure into ritual design. The documented version, limited hangouts and declassification decades later, needs no sorcery, only the calendar.
If the rulers must reveal, is exposing them resistance or part of the ritual?